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four dollars each ; with good care, they will 

 raise more tUan one lamb each on an average. 

 These lambs should be four months old in 

 July and bring five dollars each ; the fleece 

 two dollars each sheep. Then with a little 

 crowding, these ewes can be fattened to sell 

 in October at five dollars each, making a gain 

 of nine dollars. If you raise full-blooded 

 sheep of any English breed, the profit would 

 be more, as the lambs would sell to other stock 

 raisers." 



"A cow will eat, it is estimated, as much as 

 eight sheep. A good one has yielded an in- 

 come, in butter, of over one hundred dollars 

 in a year, and by selling milk a much higher 

 income. Reference can be given to several 

 persons whose flocks and herds have come up 

 to about these figures. Raising colts, young 

 cattle, or fattening oxen, some times gives a 

 good result. But cows and sheep I recom- 

 mend as likely to be profitable every year." 

 Z. E. Jameson. 



Irashurg, Vt., 1869. 



For the Kew England Farmer. 

 HOKSES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



Ladies and Gentlemen of New England — I 

 say ladies, because I believe they may justly 

 be classed among the admirers of the horse — 

 to enter into an argument at this period of the 

 nineteenth century, to show that horse stock 

 is an important item in the schedule of na- 

 tional wealth, strength and greatness, would 

 be to admit myself a novice or to assume that 

 I were addressing novices. In no country in 

 the world, perhaps, is such an argument less 

 needed thin in our own ; and in no part of 

 our country, less than in New England. In 

 few sections are horses either for service or 

 pleasure better appreciated, or a desire and 

 an ability to breed and to keep superior ani- 

 mals more general than in the Eastern States. 



The interest of farmers and breeders in the 

 production of valuable animals will depend 

 largely on the profit to be derived from their 

 sale. This profit is increasing and will con- 

 tinue to increase as horse keepers appreciate 

 the fact that it is as cheap to keep a good 

 horse as a poor one. The prime cost being 

 the only difference to be considered ; stable- 

 room, feed, grooming, &c., being equal, while 

 the chances lor selling at a profit are very de- 

 cidedly in favor of the good one. 



Windham county, Conn., where I live, is 

 not, properly speaking, a horse-raising county. 

 Still there are colts enough raised each year 

 to show the difference breeding between good 

 and poor ones. Mr. Reynolds, of Brooklyn, has 

 recently sold a pair of colts of his raising, 

 right out of the pasture and "green," for 

 $1000, — four and five years old. Dr. John 

 McClellan, of Woodstock, has recently sold 

 two green colts, two and three years old for 

 $G00. These are all from the Ethan Allen 

 etock; old "Ethan" being their grandsire. 



Wm. A. Atwood, of Killingly, has a colt one 

 year old, sired by "Geo. M. Patchen, Jr.," 

 for which he has been offered $400. Mr. At- 

 wood has a two-year-old colt from the same 

 mare, sired by "Gen. U. S. Grant," — now 

 owned in New Jersey, — of the Pathfinder 

 stock, which is a very valuable animal. I also 

 have a two-year-old stallion, sired by the 

 same horse, out of a Consternation mare, 

 which, in the hands of some men, wouM be 

 worth $1000. At the same time there are 

 plenty colts in the county, from one to five 

 years old, which can be bought to-day for 

 from $50 to $125. 



I think these few illustrations should prove 

 clearly to all horse-breeders the importance 

 and profit of starting right in breeding this 

 noble and most useful of all domestic animals. 



In writing this article, I am not blowing for 

 any particular horse or any special breed of 

 horses. I have no axe to grind ; but must say 

 that I do admire "Figaro," by imported Con- 

 sternation, raised and owned by Orrin Trow, 

 of Hardwick, Mass., "Geo. M. Patchen, Jr.," 

 "Gen. U. S. Grant," by Pathfinder and their 

 stock, the best of any three stallions with 

 which I am acquainted to-day. I also think 

 very favorably of old Ethan Allen and his 

 stock. I do not set myself up as authority in 

 these matters. I have simply given my views 

 or hints in regard to breeding. I don't pre- 

 tend to be acquainted with all the good stock 

 horses in the country by any means, but have 

 a strong desire to become better acquainted 

 with it. And one object in writing the present 

 article is to call out those who are capable of 

 imparting information which would undoubt- 

 edly be as valuable to others as to myself. If 

 there are other stock horses in this vicinity of 

 equal or superior merit with those I have 

 named, I will esteem it a favor if the owner, 

 or others, will give me information concerning 

 the same. John Dimon. 



Pomfret, Conn., Oct. 18, 1869. 



Nothing on earth can smile but human 

 beings. Gems may flash reflected light, but 

 what is a diamond-flash compared with an eye- 

 flash and mirth-flash? A face that cannot 

 smile is like a bud that cannot blossom, and 

 dries up on the stalk. Laughter is (iay and 

 sobriety is night, and a smile is the twilight 

 that hovers gently between both and is more 

 bewitching than either. 



Striped Bugs. — H. Capron, Paris, Pro- 

 vince of Ontario, assures the Sural New 

 Yorker that he succeeds in keeping his grounds 

 clear of the striped bug, by pulling up and 

 burning the vines as soon as done bearing, 

 with the weeds which grow among them, burn- 

 ing^ them up all clean, believing that he thus 

 destroys the eggs or germs of the incoming 

 crop of bugs. 



